Belgrade Media Report 05 June
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: I will not apologize, I said the truth about the ‘people from the forest’ (RTS)
• Vucic thanks Russia for condemnation of police operation in Kosovo (Beta)
• Volodin: Police raid in Kosovo’s north is a provocative act (Beta/Politika)
• Gojkovic: UNMIK presence in Kosovo under the same mandate is vital (RTS/Beta)
• Dacic: Respect the situation in the field (O2)
• Lajcak: OSCE closely monitoring situation in Kosovo; Vucic: Important that OSCE maintains neutral approach (Beta/RTS)
• Dacic: Dialogue is reanimated (Beta/Tanjug/RTS/Novosti)
• Mustafa: National Albanian Council to be financed by Albania (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Cvijanovic accuses SDA of arbitrariness and attempts to use political blockades in order to push SNSD away from B&H authorities, claims that SDA uses connections with foreign factor to maintain standstill in B&H (RTRS)
• Colak: Croats will insist on amendments to Law on Elections of B&H (Vecernji list)
• B&H HJPC Disciplinary Council rejects disciplinary complaint against B&H HJPC President Milan Tegeltija (ATV)
• Crnadak meets Palmer, discusses authority formation in B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• Stoltenberg: NATO’s main priority is to help maintain peace and stability and to work with entire Balkan region (Al Jazeera Balkans)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Stoltenberg: We are ready to welcome you into the NATO family (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Meta meeting Lajcak (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Moscow seeks justice for Russian diplomat beaten up in brutal Kosovo attack (TASS)
• President al-Assad receives Patriarch Irinej of Serbia (SANA)
Moscow seeks justice for Russian diplomat beaten up in brutal Kosovo attack (TASS)
The arrest and beating of UN staffer who enjoys diplomatic immunity testifies to a climate of utter lawlessness in the territory, Maria Zakharova said. See at: http://tass.com/politics/1061807
Read More →Danas daily awards Serbia’s two independent journalists (Danas, N1, KoSSev, BIRN)
The Belgrade based Danas daily awarded two journalists for being professional in “all but easy time for media,” the newspaper reported on Wednesday. The editor of the KoSSev website from North Kosovo’s Mitrovica town Tatjana Lazarevic and an editor of the BIRN website and a journalist with the Vreme weekly Slobodan Georgijev will receive “Stanislav […]
Read More →Commander of Bondsteel on the situation in Kosovo, tensions with Russia, the aim of the mission (B92, Tanjug, RTK)
The commander of the US military base Bondsteel in Kosovo Roy Macaraeg says the situation in Kosovo is calm, and the tensions come from political spheres, reports B92. According to Macaraeg, during talks with US Secretary of State for Army Mark Esper, tensions between Belgrade and Pristina were rebuilt recently when, as he said, Serbian […]
Read More →It’s time we all act for a healthier environment! (media)
On World Environment Day, a group of entities working in Kosovo (United Nations Development Coordinator, The Embassy of Sweden in Pristina, Balkan Green Foundation, GAP Institute, Group for Legal and Political Studies, Institute for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme) issued a joint statement stating that a healthy environment is a basic right and it […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Push for ‘Serbian Genocide’ Tribunal ‘Likely to Fail’ (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo MPs are calling for a new international tribunal to prosecute Serbs for alleged genocide in 1998-99, but experts argue that the initiative is politically-motivated and almost certain not to succeed. https://bit.ly/2WPnsW0
Read More →Kosovo PM Sacks Adviser Convicted of War Crimes (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj sacked his adviser Sylejman Selimi, a former Kosovo Liberation Army commander who was released this year after serving a war crimes sentence. “I have released my political adviser, Sylejman Selimi, from his duties, upon his request. I thanked Mr. Selimi for the contribution he has made so far in my […]
Read More →Kosovo Charges Ethnic Serb With War Crimes (RFE)
Kosovar prosecutors have indicted an ethnic Serb accused of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Kosovo’s Special Prosecution said on June 3 that the suspect, identified only as Z.Dj., was accused of participating in atrocities committed in the town of Peja, about 85 kilometers west of Pristina, in […]
Read More →Montenegro court sentences man for war crimes in Kosovo (media)
Media report that the High Court in Podgorica has sentenced a Montenegrin national to 14 years in prison for crimes against civilian population. Vlado Zmajevic was convicted for the killing of four Albanian civilians in the Kosovo village of Zheger in 1999. Bekim Blakaj from the Humanitarian Law Centre told Radio Free Europe that Zmajevic […]
Read More →Political representatives of Kosovo Serbs visiting Berlin (Kontakt plus radio)
Delegation of Kosovo Serb political representatives arrived at Berlin to have several meetings with the representatives of German Government and Bundestag, among others with Advisor to Chancellor Merkel, Matthias Lüttenberg, then with the (MFA) Special Envoy of Southeast Europe Mr. Helbach, and MPs Mr Juratovic and Mr Sarazin, reported Kontakt plus radio, quoting the Serbian […]
Read More →Dacic: Dialogue on resuscitation (Blic, N1)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said yesterday that the dialogue with Pristina was on resuscitation and that the continuation depends on the “reanimator”, that was, those who should inhale a life into it, reported Belgrade based daily Blic. At a news conference after meeting with Miroslav Lajcak, Dacic said that Pristina had the goal of obstructing […]
Read More →Haradinaj speaks about tomorrow’s meeting with Merkel (media)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj addressed the citizens on Kosovo on Facebook to speak about his upcoming meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “I will travel today to Berlin for a one-day visit to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of Bundestag Wolfgang Schauble, MPs from all parliamentary groups in Bundestag, take part in […]
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